E vs. OXY, PXD, CVE, EOG, FANG, DVN, CNQ, CTRA, EQT, and MRO
Should you be buying ENI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ENI include Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Cenovus Energy (CVE), EOG Resources (EOG), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Devon Energy (DVN), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), Coterra Energy (CTRA), EQT (EQT), and Marathon Oil (MRO). These companies are all part of the "crude petroleum & natural gas" industry.
ENI (NYSE:E) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
ENI pays an annual dividend of $1.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Occidental Petroleum pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. ENI pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Occidental Petroleum pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
1.2% of ENI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of ENI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Occidental Petroleum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ENI has higher revenue and earnings than Occidental Petroleum. ENI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Occidental Petroleum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Occidental Petroleum received 433 more outperform votes than ENI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.20% of users gave Occidental Petroleum an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave ENI an outperform vote.
Occidental Petroleum has a consensus price target of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.97%. Given Occidental Petroleum's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Occidental Petroleum is more favorable than ENI.
In the previous week, Occidental Petroleum had 26 more articles in the media than ENI. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Occidental Petroleum and 8 mentions for ENI. ENI's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Occidental Petroleum's score of 0.41 indicating that ENI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Occidental Petroleum has a net margin of 15.62% compared to ENI's net margin of 3.95%. Occidental Petroleum's return on equity of 17.50% beat ENI's return on equity.
ENI has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Occidental Petroleum has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Occidental Petroleum beats ENI on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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